Hi,

I was unable to find any information regarding the Arch's policy on the
LTS kernel, specifically, what determines when the current lts version
is replaced by the next lts version?

Thank you,
Diogo Sousa

Am 12.07.2012 18:02, schrieb Diogo Sousa:
> Hi,
>
> I was unable to find any information regarding the Arch's policy on the
> LTS kernel, specifically, what determines when the current lts version
> is replaced by the next lts version?

I don't think there is a written policy, but: In the past, we moved on
to the next kernel whenever Greg Kroah-Hartman decided to stop
maintaining the current LTS version.

So, as long as Greg K-H actively takes care of 3.0, we will likely keep
it - probably at least another year.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Diogo Sousa <diogogsousa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was unable to find any information regarding the Arch's policy on the
> LTS kernel, specifically, what determines when the current lts version
> is replaced by the next lts version?

As Thomas said, I don't think anything has been formally decided. That
said, what is currently happening is that we follow the '-longterm'
releases by Greg. He outlined his plans for them some time ago[0].

At the moment I think there is only one active -longterm release, so
it is quite simple. However, you can see from the plan that at some
point we should expect there to be two active -longterm kernels at any
given time. Then we have to decide if we want to go with the most
recent or the least recent version. Either way, we should expect to
eventually end up upgrading once per year (assuming Greg sticks to his
plan that is). Or we could of course stay two years on each release. I
guess time will tell.

Cheers,

Tom

[0]: <https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/15/5>